"I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture."

"Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic."

"I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road."

"When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television."

"I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music."

"I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously."

"I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it."

"[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines."

"People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies."

"Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story."

"Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me."

"Sometimes I have songs born out of stories."

"My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too."

"I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart."

"You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams."

"LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes."

"I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something."

"It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead."

"For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age."

"Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it."

"When the Chinese Wall was built, where'd the masons go for lunch? When Caesar conquered Gaul, was there not even a cook in the army? When the Armada sank, King Philip wept. Were there no other tears?"

"All the world says: yes we know what’s written in the books but now let’s see what our eyes tell us."

"In my poetry a rhyme Would seem to me almost insolent. Inside me contend Delight at the apple tree in blossom And horror at the house-painter’s speeches. But only the second Drives me to my desk."

"Weaknesses You had none I had one: I loved."